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9 Jun 2020, 12:28 AM | #1 |
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Blocking now sends message to trash
Blocking now sends messages to trash - via the spam filter.
This is a complete pain Has anyone got a trick to defeat this, or an inside track at FM to get them to revert? Thanks |
9 Jun 2020, 12:54 PM | #2 | |
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I just got an email from FM notifying me that "all accounts will be updated to use the updated Rules and Filters the week of June 15, 2020." They go on to explain in detail what your choices are since the new rules UI no longer support discard. Rather than me paraphrasing what they said I'll just quote it...
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13 Jun 2020, 01:13 PM | #3 |
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So... from what I have read on the forum ---> there will no longer be a "discard" option? This is horrible!
I use subdomain addressing for each specific organization I do business with. Examples: Amazon@subdomain SouthwestAirlines@subdomin MyBank@subdomain If a specific subdomain is compromised, I make it a discard rule. In addition, I have 6 blocked senders which are immediate discard. I do not want to see this stuff in my Trash folder! |
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14 Jun 2020, 05:44 AM | #5 | |
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Method one: for subdomain.mydomain.tld make the alias subdomain@mydomain.tld and disable this alias. This would block all mail to that alias including al subdomain addresses for that alias. Method 2: In the DNS make fake mx records for the subdomain (that route all the mail for the subdomain to a "black hole". One additional advantage is that legitimate senders that might try to contact you through the disabled addresses would get an erroer message that mail was not sent' so they would try to contact you using some other method. |
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14 Jun 2020, 07:27 PM | #7 | |
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15 Jun 2020, 06:44 AM | #8 |
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I don't think forwarding would work. When I looked a few days ago there was only an option to forward a copy.
I was going to suggest adding a few lines of sieve to discard all mail to a particular address and then forward to that. |
15 Jun 2020, 11:49 AM | #9 | |
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For my own education I'm curious about that DiscardThis@contoso.com. Never heard of that before? Is it documented somewhere? Contoso.com is but how does DiscardThis@contoso.com essentially map into a "black hole"? Don't see any info on that local part. |
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15 Jun 2020, 09:24 PM | #10 |
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15 Jun 2020, 10:52 PM | #11 |
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16 Jun 2020, 12:07 AM | #13 |
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I was suggesting how to get rid of all the mail sent to a particular subdomain (or to a single email address). This can be done by making it an alias that does not receive any mail. It's not a replacement for rules that want to get rid only of some of the mail sent to an address (like block some senders but not all senders). I think that lacking an instruction to permanently delete the most sensible thing to do is to file the unwanted mail in a hidden folder, perhaps with periodical deletion of old mail. Whether it deletes mail that is one day old, a week old, a year old or never deletes depends on how much mail is received.
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16 Jun 2020, 03:20 AM | #14 |
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I'm pretty sure chipper actually meant discard mail to a specific subdomain *address*, otherwise the rest of what he wrote doesn't make any sense.
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16 Jun 2020, 08:20 AM | #15 | |
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Amazon@xxxx.FastMailDomain.tld SouthwestAirlines@xxxx.FastMailDomain.tld MyBank@xxxx.FastMailDomain.tld For example, let's say that my Amazon subdomain address got compromised. Easy fix: 1) Create a rule to delete if "To Addr" is Amazon@xxxx.FastMailDomain.tld 2) Change my addr with them to Amazon2@xxxx.FastMailDomain.tld |
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